December 18, 2012 - Local author, Rodney Riesel, will discuss how he became a writer of fiction and the actual process of publishing his first book.

A mystery taking place in the Florida Keys, Sleeping Dogs Lie, is the first installment of the story of lottery winner turned private detective, Dan Coast.

Dan, a wise-cracking excessive drinker, is haunted by the memory of his dead wife. Shortly after the two won the lottery and purchased a small beach bungalow in the Florida Keys, her life was taken in a car
accident. Soon after his wife’s death, Dan relocated to the Keys with his wife’s dog, whom he blames for her death.

In Sleeping Dogs Lie, Dan Coast, an unlicensed Private detective of sorts is hired to find the missing boyfriend of a woman who
herself soon ends up missing. When someone from the woman’s past unexpectedly shows up at Dan’s home, with a story of faked deaths and missing life insurance money; Dan along with his side kick Red set out to find the money, and the woman.